Tremors follows two handymen, Val and Earl, who get tired at working at the dead end desert town of Perfection, and decide to leave town soon. But their plans are cut short when the town is suddenly attacked oleh subterranean creatures later nicknamed Graboids. As people end up popping up dead all over the town and the Graboids make their existence clear, Val and Earl stay in Perfection to help defend the town from the invading creatures. Now, first thing that should be noted is that this barely counts as a horror movie. It sure as hell isn’t scary. It’s kinda hard to be scary when anda got Kevin daging babi asap, bacon as your lead role shouting fuck anda at a puppet, but it’s got the perfect scenes of horror. It’s got the suspense, it hides the creatures, and it always has its slow build up to the reveal of the Graboids. Finding the man dead from dehydration on puncak, atas of the electric pole, finding a farmers severed head, an old married couple’s car getting buried, it’s got it all.
But let’s talk about the creatures of the movie, the Graboids. Just the desain of these things is something that is hard to grasp. They are these large snake like creatures with three tongues that also have teeth attached to them. They have no eyes, so they cannot see, but they can hear the vibrations and people talking, and use that to pindah through the ground to catch their prey off guard. They can’t see us, but we can’t see them either. And as the movie goes on, the Graboids learn from the sebelumnya ones mistakes in order to get them. One gets killed oleh trying to break into the houses, the others will just tear the houses down from the outside. One eats a pipe bomb and dies, the other will just spit it back towards the survivors. They aren’t just wild beasts, they have intelligence and know how to use it to their advantage. Also, the practical effects for the Graboids are amazing. This was the detik movie to have the use of the special effects company, Amalgamated Dynamics, who, after this movie, went on to do effects for films like the Aliens franchise to as baru saja as the new It movie (Also, if your curious, their first movie was Teen Witch).
Another thing I like about this film is how some of the people treat it. The main duo’s first thought when finding a Graboid under their car is to try and sell the thing off to a store clerk who is willing to pay for it. They even get money oleh taking pictures of the creatures corpses. In later films, like the sequel, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, they end the movie oleh planning to create a monster themed theme park. In Tremors 3: Return to Perfection, they sell off a surviving creature for money. I feel like there is a sort of underlying theme about business atau something, but we all know I’m not that much of a snob to look into it
I’d say that, yeah, Tremors is still a fun movie. The characters are threatened, but never take the situation seriously, making them all a lot of fun, and the monsters are creepy, threatening, and have a nice desain to them. And Tremors must’ve done something right, because it managed to get five sequels, quality varying, a tv series in the early 2000s, and a ton of critical acclaim, which I think it lebih than deserves. I highly recommend Tremors to anyone who just wants to have a fun monster movie. It’s worth a watch
